Christine Overdevest

Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 2005

Areas of Interest: Environmental and Natural Resources Sociology and Economic Sociology

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E-mail: coverdev@soc.ufl.edu
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Christine Overdevest received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2005.  Her current research evaluates institutions of environmental governance that improve the democratic accountability and participatory nature and quality of environmental management.  Current research projects evaluate forest certification and participatory standard setting in the US, Sweden and Finland.  Publications include Overdevest, C. and M.G. Rickenbach.  In press. Forest Certification and Institutional Governance:  An Empirical Study of Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Holders in the United States.  Forest Policy & Economics,  Overdevest, C.  2005.  Information Politics, Treadmill Politics, and Public Policy:  Toward a Political Economy of Information.  Organization and Environment.  18: 72-90, Overdevest, C.  2004.  Codes of Conduct and Standard Setting in the Forest Sector:  Constructing Markets for Democracy?  Industrial Relations/Relations Industrielles.  59(1):172-198, and Overdevest, C.., Orr. C.S., and K. Stepenuck   2004.  Volunteer Stream Monitoring and Local Participation in Natural Resource Issues.   Human Ecology Review.  Winter 2004:177-185.